Who is a Natural Born Citizen of the United States of America
A "Natural born citizen" - the most crucial concept of the
moment in America - is confusing (and deliberately
confused). This
concept is used in the Constitution of the US
(Article II, Section 1, #4) as a precondition for
presidency - and only for
presidency, being clearly
distinguished from ordinary
citizenship. It has not been defined in the Constitution nor in
any later statutes,
because it had been self evident in the time when the Constitution was
written,
codified in the then contemporary encyclopedia "The Law of
Nations"
(1758) by Emerich de Vattel. (As a legal source "Law of Nations" is
mentioned
in Article I, Section 8, #10 of the Constitution in respect to the
authority of
the US Congress to enforce the law of nations, in particular - against
piracies
and felonies on high seas).
In Chapter
19,
§212 of "The Law of Nations" the concept "Natural born
citizen" is defined as a twofold criterion:
In
other words, a natural born citizen means at least a second
generation citizen of the country. Vattel's own note on the margin of
his book refers to the Roman
law: NEMO PLUS JURIS
TRANSFERRE POTEST, QUAM IPSE HABET, meaning "No one can give more rights than he
himself has" (by Dr. A. Altec). Except for Obama/Soetoro, the Vattel
definition had been
always applied, the last
precedent being the US
Senate
resolution 511 in 2008 acknowledging Sen. McCain
as a natural born citizen. (The former link
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200804/041008c.html has been deleted from
the Senate page!)
Often "Natural born citizenship" is confused with
§1401 of the US Code "Nationals and citizens of United States at
birth". Although the words sound similar, §1401 defines only ordinary
citizenship including such shallow one as that of anchor babies (i.e.
born
to legal guests of the
country, §1401(a), never mind
illegal
residents).
The Constitution clearly and explicitly excludes ordinary
citizenship
for presidency (ordinary citizenship was reserved only for the
presidential candidates
- contemporaries of the Framers). Definitely the "Natural
born citizenship" is not the
same as ordinary citizenship, but
something stronger. By not explicitly quoting the Vattel's definition,
the Constitution therefore leaves some room for
confusions. (Many such confusions resulted of deliberate efforts of "progressives" to erode the
basic
constitutional concepts inconvenient for them).
Fortunately there exists (at least) one original US document directly
defining
the "Natural born citizenship" according to Emerich de Vattel. This
document (which does have legal binding) is the actual text of the
FIRST
CONGRESS in 1790 (see below).
Other arguments in favor of the definition of
Vattel are
the following. The Framers (in their correspondence) explicitly wished
to
exclude dual loyalty, and explicitly required that the US
citizenship
of the president be deeper than ordinary citizenship (such as that of
their
contemporaries). After all, any one can acquire an ordinary US
citizenship in
some point of one's life, so the Framers clearly excluded this kind of
citizenship. On the contrary, the Natural Born Citizenship cannot be
acquired:
it may be only inherited.
After the
Framers, all the
presidents, except Obama, did officially
satisfy this definition,
demonstrating
continuity of the meaning
"Natural born citizenship" consistent with
that of Vattel. Nobody had ever attempted to question or widen its
meaning
up to and
including the vetting of
Sen. McCain in 2008. (In the past only one
President
Chester Arthur 1881-1885 violated it, hiding and destroying the traces
of
the British citizenship of his father, discovered only after his death.
The carefully hidden violation of Chester Arthur in fact is an additional argument that the
Vattel's definition was valid
and he
was aware of it).
Shockingly, in 2008 nobody even attempted to hide the foreign citizenship of Obama's biological father - an open, overt violation of the Constitution: a violation directly into the face. Worse, no personal document of Obama at all has been ever verified. The perpetrators and enablers have been the media, both big and all the small parties, plus the three branches of government, who overlooked and orchestrated ascendance of the impostor into the White House - while the majority of American people didn't care, were hoodwinked, or brain dead.
This brain dead
crowd still
maintains the consensus of silencing and suppression of the truth,
cheering the procession and wonderful cloths of the proverbial Emperor
without cloths,
while the cheer leaders keep an eye on those attempting to
speak out the
truth.
1) With only one parent American citizen (the mother) and the father -
a foreigner, Obama/Soetoro is definitely not a natural born citizen no
matter where he was born and what is in his hidden full birth
certificate.
2) His Indonesian citizenship abrogates his presumed natural born
citizenship
even if it were valid at his birth (and it was not).
3) Obama's authentic birth certificate at best can only prove him to be
an ordinary U.S. citizen according
to §1401(a): definitely
not a natural born U.S. citizen. (Fixation on his hidden birth
certificate is misguiding, just like a pejorative "birther", invented
by those who want to deflect attention from the real issues lying on the very
surface and not requiring any birth certificate).
4) On the top of it, Obama is a plain fraudster who had obtained
an
invalid Social Security number 042-68-4425, that he currently uses. It
was issued in the state of CT to an individual born in 1890. Obama
illegally assumed this number, as Dr. Taitz and her collaborators have
discovered. His selective military registration form is forged too.
http://www.naturalborncitizen.org
http://people.mags.net/tonchen/birthers.htm#ref04
